Construction Manager (Contract)

Your New Company

Our client is a well-established organization within the mining industry and is currently undertaking a significant underground capital project in Ontario. The organization is seeking an experienced Construction Manager who can provide strong field leadership, contractor management, and project execution expertise while maintaining a high standard of safety, quality, cost, and schedule performance.

Your New Role

As the Construction Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the construction process, including project planning, execution, monitoring, and completion. You will ensure construction activities are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

Reporting to the Project Director, you will lead construction professionals and manage the construction contractor, supervision, and field support personnel. You will also coordinate closely with project stakeholders, operations, maintenance, engineering, vendors, and other supporting functions. This is an onsite contract position that will require regular underground work.

What You’ll Do

• Lead multidisciplinary construction and demolition teams, contractors, and subcontractors through the execution of complex construction activities, ensuring alignment with project objectives and technical requirements.
• Manage contracts, project budgets, cost controls, schedules, milestones, change orders, and reporting ensuring work is completed within established scope, cost, and timeline requirements.
• Ensure compliance with applicable health, safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements, including site standards, legislation, environmental management systems, field observations, and hazard audits.
• Interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and contract requirements, coordinate technical reviews, and oversee quality assurance, inspections, and testing.
• Ensure construction activities meet required engineering and industry standards.
• Coordinate labour, equipment, materials, technical resources, and procurement requirements.
• Serve as a key liaison between project teams, operations, maintenance, vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Support recruitment and resource planning while promoting employee training, professional development, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across the project team.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 10–15 years of relevant experience in construction, project delivery, or a closely related environment.
• An Engineering Degree or Construction Management Degree is mandatory.
• Strong experience leading multidisciplinary construction teams, contractors, and subcontractors.
• Demonstrated experience with contract management, budgets, cost controls, project schedules, milestones, change orders, and reporting.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and construction contract requirements.
• Strong understanding of health, safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements within complex construction environments.
• Experience coordinating labour, equipment, materials, procurement, and technical resources.
• Strong contractor and stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate effectively across project, operations, maintenance, engineering, and vendor groups.
• Ability and willingness to work onsite and complete regular underground duties as required by the position.

What You’ll Get in Return

A contract opportunity supporting a significant underground mining project with exposure to complex construction execution and multidisciplinary project teams.

An opportunity to take ownership of construction execution and work directly with project leadership, contractors, operations, maintenance, and other key stakeholders.

The contract is currently expected to run until July 1, 2027.

Onsite, weekly work arrangement with regular underground exposure.

The opportunity to contribute to a major project where safety, quality, schedule, cost control, and successful field execution are key priorities.

If you are an experienced Construction Manager with a strong background in industrial construction, contractor management, project execution, and multidisciplinary team leadership, we would love to hear from you.

This posting is for an existing vacancy with the organization.

AI may be used to screen, assess or select applicants for the position.

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